LARGE CAST

12 plays for young adults

Another great collection from the Australian Script Centre.

Large Cast is an online anthology of twelve contemporary Australian plays, selected by a panel of two experienced drama teachers and a youth theatre director (see credits). The plays include a variety of comedies and dramas, a non-traditional musical, a fantasy and an ensemble storytelling piece. Cast sizes range from nine to 130 and often allow for considerable variability.

Each play can be downloaded in manuscript form for easy printing, and includes a resource pack for teachers. Where available, this contains author's notes, reviews, information about the playwright, photos from previous productions, and comments from the selection panel.

The anthology also includes From page to stage: a teacher's guide to navigating the production rights process, and a Copy Licence form.

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eCollection $25.00

The Plays

How to use this eCollection

Buy the anthology online.
Follow your unique link in the order confirmation email to the downloads page.
Download individual play resource packs as zip files.
Unzip the files and save your downloads somewhere safe on your computer. Or, if you wish, burn them onto CD.
Browse at your leisure.

Alice Dreaming
	by Ned Manning A teenage girl, struggling with her identity, feels trapped by the expectations of those around her

Bumpy Angels
	by Sue Rider It is February 1954. In a home for pregnant and wayward girls somewhere in Australia, a number of young women are coming to terms with being hidden away because of the shame of breaking society’s taboos.

Chronicles of the French Revolution
	by Sandra Shotlander A young woman looks back on her struggle to survive the tumultous years of the French Revolution.

Drought Breaker
	by Linda Stainton In far western New South Wales the booming silver mines of Hades Crossing feed the burgeoning economy of a newly minted nation.

Gate 38
	by David Megarrity Airports are places of transition, empty halls of fleeting comings, goings and waitings. Gate 38 follows the experiences of four groups of young people trapped at this point of departure.

Generation B
	by Gail Evans When Eris, the Goddess of Discord and Strife, is humiliated in front of her fellow Olympians by Zeus’s refusal to give her a sip of ambrosia, she vows to seek revenge!

Hanging on to the Bottom of the World
	by Barry Kay So you think the story of Australian Federation is staid and boring? Hanging on to the Bottom of the World makes it as theatrical, physical, visual and funny as possible while not shying away from the darker side of the story.

Motion Sickness
	by Michael Hill Sean has a terrible confession to make. He wants to tell his sister the unforgivable thing he has done, but just as he gathers the courage to walk through the door of the building where she works, the ground begins to shake.

Smells Like Impulse
	by Stephen Carleton A deliriously tacky comedy about stereotypes in the schoolyard, embracing self-image and taking control of your own school life.

Something Wicked
	by Kate Rice While doing time in the dreaded Detention Room Three, five schoolgirls unwittingly unlock a portal to the world of Macbeth.

Stories from Suburban Road
	by Alan Becher Adapted by the late Alan Becher from Tom Hungerford’s autobiography of the same name, Stories from Suburban Road is a nostalgic and vivid look at growing up in an Australian rural setting between two world wars.

Tales from the Arabian Nights
	by Donna Abela The King has beheaded his Queen. He has locked up the desperate outsiders she hid in his kingdom, and vowed to execute them, one by one, each dawn.